This Latin Mass is marked by exceptionally rich and powerfully expressive melody and harmony. Radiant with joy, solemn and measured, insistent in lamentation, moving in contemplation, the Mass speaks directly to human emotions and reflects faith, trust, hope and a zest for life. The easy-to-perform organ or piano accompaniment (mostly colla parte) provides support for the vocal parts and lends the Mass an added festive splendour.

The clarity of form, tonal disposition, moderate proportion, lo...